• KarmaTrainCaboose@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What if I build a house on a piece of land I own and want to rent it out?

    The second construction is completed I’m all of a sudden a scumbag for privatizing someone else’s right to shelter? Even though it’s a house I built on my land? Doesn’t make much sense to me.

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        1 year ago

        As I stated in the very first sentence: to rent it out.

        I suppose your response will be “but renting it out is bad! We should make that illegal because you’re extracting wealth from the tenant!”

        Then I will say to you “fine, I suppose I will not build that house at all”

        This is how you get a take a housing shortage in the US and make it far, far worse.

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      1 year ago

      You’re moving the goal posts here. Did you buy the land for the purpose of building property? Bad. Did you convert arable land into housing? Bad. Was it a rocky bad piece of land that you invested in to build something more out of it? Good. Housing policy isn’t binary but in most cases the current personal private multiownership model doesn’t help anyone. My perspective is no one should be allowed to own more than one house, and if so anything beyond the first house should be heavily taxed.

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        1 year ago

        Buying land for the purpose of building property is bad? I think any policy that discourages development of additional housing is probably not going to be great for house prices. Or if you’re handing out houses in a lottery system, it won’t be great for housing supply at least.

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          1 year ago

          I’ll give you an example; my country has food insecurity, rich people take arable farmland and build suburbs on that land instead of infilling the city downtown which has single detached homes less than a kilometre from the centre of the city. Do you think that this is a good thing they’re buying this farmland for suburbs, or a bad thing?